Lamentations 2:20
"Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? of a span...: or, swaddled with their hands?"
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Parallel scriptures and linked biblical themes for Lamentations 2:20.
"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them."
"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
"Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
"And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?"
"For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,"
"I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand."
"The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders."
"I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."